The government careened toward shutdown Friday night in a chaotic close to Donald Trumpβs first year as president, as Democrats and Republicans preemptively traded blame while still struggling to find some accord before a deadline at the stroke of midnight.
A bitterly-divided Congress hurtled toward a government shutdown this weekend in a partisan stare-down over demands by Democrats for a solution on politically fraught legislation to protect about 700,000 younger immigrants from being deported.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday delayed a lower-court order that would have forced North Carolina Republican lawmakers to redraw the stateβs congressional districts by next week because of excessive partisan bias in current lines.
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon on Tuesday refused to answer a broad array of queries from the House Intelligence Committee about his time working for President Donald Trump, provoking a subpoena from the panelβs Republican chairman.
President Donald Trumpβs overall health βis excellentβ and he did βexceedingly wellβ on cognitive screening designed to detect early signs of memory loss and other neurologic functions, the Navy doctor who performed Trumpβs medical checkup said Tuesday.
Steve Bannon, the onetime close confidant to President Donald Trump, arrived early Tuesday for his interview before the House Intelligence Committee.
Gov't Shutdown Looms Amid DACA Controversy
President Donald Trump told reporters he is not a racist, denying reports that he called African nations "shithole countries" during a White House meeting with lawmakers on immigration reform.
President Donald Trumpβs White House physician declared him in βexcellent healthβ after the president received his first medical checkup at Walter Reed military hospital on Friday, undergoing a physical examination amid suggestions in a recent book and by his detractors that heβs mentally unfit.
In an extraordinary Oval Office exchange, President Donald Trump questioned Thursday why the U.S. should permit immigrants from βsh--hole countriesβ as he rejected a plan by a bipartisan group of senators that would have changed rules affecting entrants from Africa and Haiti, according to three people briefed on the conversation.
President Donald Trump says he has decided not to come to London to open the new U.S. Embassy, blaming the Obama administration for doing a βbad dealβ to move the diplomatic mission.
President Donald Trump signed legislation Wednesday aimed at giving Customs and Border Protection agents additional screening devices and other tools to stop the flow of illicit drugs.
Michael Cohen, a personal lawyer for Trump who is named in the dossier, says BuzzFeed and several of its staffers defamed him when it published the 35-page document and an accompanying article.
Bargainers seeking a bipartisan immigration accord planned talks as soon as Wednesday as President Donald Trump and leading lawmakers sought to parlay an extraordinary White House meeting into momentum for resolving a politically blistering issue.
President Donald Trump has signed a bill to create a national historic park in Atlanta honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
Federal judges ruled Tuesday that North Carolinaβs congressional district map drawn by legislative Republicans is illegally gerrymandered because of excessive partisanship that gave the GOP a rock-solid advantage for most seats and must quickly be redone.
President Donald Trumpβs administration is aiming to curb the number of veteran suicides by improving mental health treatment for the high-risk group.
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is stepping down as chairman of Breitbart News Network after a public break with President Donald Trump.
Seeking a bipartisan compromise to avoid a government shutdown, President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that an immigration deal could be reached in two phases β first by addressing young immigrants and border security with what he called a βbill of love,β then by making comprehensive changes that have long eluded Congress.
The founder of a firm that commissioned a dossier of allegations about President Donald Trumpβs ties to Russia told congressional investigators that its author took it to the FBI because of a concern about βwhether a political candidate was being blackmailed.β
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